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Wendy Allison Lee

@wendyallisonlee.bsky.social

Not the novelist or the other Wendy A. Lee. Opinions my own (because, of course, they are?).

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Emily Steinlight@emilysteinlight.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s been a hard week and I nearly missed that this was finally out. I wrote “Victorian Studies and the American State” 5 years ago and have been discussing it with some of you for a decade. Surreal to see, and grateful to be in the good company of @jakeromanow.bsky.social and brilliant respondents

Victorian Studies and the American State | PMLA | Cambridge Core

Victorian Studies and the American State - Volume 141 Issue 2

cambridge.org

roxanne panchasi@rpanchasi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I asked the students in HIST 111: Histories of Technology to send me a photo of their preferred in-class writing instrument, do a deep dive re: its materials, manufacture & tell me where they got it, what it feels like to write with+++ Their responses have been a HUGE pleasure to read!

An image of a Muji mechanical pencil on a dark wood surfaceA black mechanical pencil and eraser on a piece of lined paper with some writing on it.Several images of a Muji mechanical pencil from different anglesA hand holding a grey Bic pen with a black cap in a classroom (chairs in the background)
Hugh Ryan@hughryan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

It's official: MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND has a cover! I love how the yellow feels like a run over hazard sign, and the mixtape is perhaps my personal 90s icon. As for those sexy statues? You'll have to read it to find out...

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Wendy Allison Lee@wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Attn: @dem8z.bsky.social, you are part of today's Out of the Archives post!

The Pembroke Center at Brown University@pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Out of the Archives: a 1992 letter from Judith Butler in the papers of Hortense J. Spillers. Butler is giving the Pembroke Center Publics Lecture Wednesday, November 5. Tickets have sold out, but the lecture will be recorded and available on our YouTube playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....

Image shows a typewritten letter to Professor Hortense Spillers, signed by Judith Butler, Professor of Humanities. The letter is on Johns Hopkins University stationary.
tamara nopper@tamaranopper.bsky.social · last yr.

The critique that police aren’t workers hasn’t been helpful to abolition. It’s not about welcoming carceral industries in the labor movement. It’s about dealing with how the economy, public sector jobs, and budgets are entangled with carcerality. And organizing for a new public with different work.

andré carrington@andrecarrington.bsky.social · last yr.

OMG it is not useful. I say that because it does not work, from my perspective as a teacher & scholar. Stop trying to make fetch happen.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last yr.

I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · last yr.

'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

Tangential I guess but the beginningof my next book is about why we need science and poetry to help us understand metaphors or else we are politically fucked and this guy is proving my point 😭

Anonymous@youranonjd.bsky.social · last yr.

Hurricane season started June 1st. New FEMA Chief David Richardson didn’t know hurricane season is annual. He is months behind on a plan, gutted key programs, and brought in unqualified DHS staff. Now he’s explaining disaster response with fruit metaphors.

Several top FEMA officials have departed the agency in recent weeks, as Richardson has brought on staff from the Department of Homeland Security, according to personnel announcement emails sent to agency employees. Those DHS officials, many of whom don't have emergency-management experience, have been largely in charge of crafting the agency's new approach, according to people familiar with the matter. During a May meeting, Richardson said the agency needs to break its goals into various tasks, which he explained using fruit metaphors. "Some of those tasks will be kind of orange-like tasks, " he said, according to a video recording of the meeting viewed by the Journal. "And by orange, I mean the fruit orange, but they might be tangerines, they might be blood oranges, it might just be a little bit grapefruity, all those will go in one bin.
Corey McEleney@cmceleney.bsky.social · last yr.

This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · last yr.

MSCL’s main character, Angela Chase, is both loved and abhorred for her over-analyzing. Her fraught monologues have been read as both the center of the show’s relatability & as whining and entitled. @cmceleney.bsky.social probes this ambivalence in "A Lover’s Discord" post45.org/2025/05/a-lo...